2009.23.4a-b

Model 13 Desk Slate

Howe Memorial Press, Perkins Institution

Perkins Institute Model 13 Desk Slate; rectangular wooden board with parallel grooves in sides, seven pairs of holes in grooves to hold pins in the slate; nickel plated brass paper clamp riveted to top of board, clamp has a piano hinge with a steel wire pin, two teeth on bottom pass through holes in the top plate of the clamp; nickel plated brass slate, four rows of 34 cells, cells have dimpled cutouts to hold stylus point in proper position; raised bead horizontally on top of slate between the second and third row of cells; steel pin on piano hinge; single pin (down) on top frame of slate passes through matching hole in bottom frame; bottom plate of slate has six hollows punched under each cell to help form proper dots.

H-12.75 W-10.5 D-0.75 inches

Howe Memorial Press, Perkins Institution

Watertown, MA

The Model 13 Desk Slate was available from the Howe Memorial Press as early as 1932.

APH Collection, 2009.23.